Sigla: JSLih 035; Lidzbarski 1915: 214–216; Grimme 1937: 320; CLL 011; Scagliarini 1994: 137–142, no. 1; D 042  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: ʿltṣr/bn/ʿmr/h- ṣnʿ
2: ʿbd/l- mrʾ -h/f rḍy -h

Translation
1: ʿltṣr son of ʿmr the artisan
2: served for his lord and may he (the god) favour him

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Lidzbarski and Grimme: rṭy for rḍy.

TRANSLATION
Line 2. f rḍy -h, Grimme: 'and so he may refresh him'; Caskel: 'two life-spans to him'.

DISCUSSION
Jamme 1968: 132–133.

Commentary
The inscription is carved on a whitish sandstone stone.

Subjects
Genealogy Prayer Religion

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1909–1910
Field collector: Jaussen & Savignac
Survey: Mission archéologique en Arabie
Notes: The inscription was found by a Turk official in Al-Ḫuraybah

References:
[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 81

[D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. Pages: 157 Plates: XI

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 320

Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. Pages: 132–133

[JSLih] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Volume: II Pages: 363–365 Plates: LXXIX

Lidzbarski, M. Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik. (3 volumes). Giessen: Ricker &Töpelmann, 1902-1915. Volume: III Pages: 214–216

Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. Pages: 137–142 Number: 1

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